Cornell alumna Irene Rosenfeld, chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods, will discuss growth in turbulent times as the 30th Hatfield lecturer, March 7 in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
Original dance work by student, alumni and faculty choreographers, along with community members and visiting artists, will be featured March 5-13 in the 2012 Locally Grown Dance Festival.
A memorial service for Ulric Neisser, professor emeritus of psychology and a founder of cognitive psychology, will be held April 14 at 1:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
It doesn't happen often, but structures like bridges, airplanes and buildings do fail. What are the odds, and how can it be prevented? Cornell physicists are using computer modeling to find out. (Feb. 27, 2012)
Justin Yifu Lin, chief economist of the World Bank, said that understanding China's historic growth rate can provide valuable insight for developing countries, when he was spoke on campus Feb. 20.
A Feb. 25 concert in Bailey Hall will celebrate the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and conductor Karel Husa, who taught composition at Cornell from 1954 to 1992.
Professor of Africana studies Robert L. Harris Jr. has worked with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration on a new exhibition honoring 29 notable African-Americans from New York state.
William Dichtel, Nate Foster and Noah Snavely are among 126 researchers selected from 51 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada to receive Sloan Research Fellowships for 2012.